I look for ways to protect biodiversity in tropical forests, both forests that are used by humans, for example for logging, and forests set aside for conservation, from national parks to small community protected areas. I try to answer tricky questions in tropical forest ecology using new technologies, such as through recording soundscapes, where traditional field methods aren’t enough. I also work with the environmental news platform Mongabay on understanding which conservation strategies succeed and fail in tropical forests. I feel privileged to have worked in the tropical forests of Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, and Borneo.

Contactburivalova(at)wisc(dot)eduDepartment of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, and the Nelson Institute for Environmental StudiesUniversity of Wisconsin Madison, Madison WI, USA